Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

11.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

12.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

13.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

14.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

15.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

17.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

18.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

19.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

20.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

23.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

25.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

28.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

29.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

30.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

32.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

33.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

34.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

35.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

36.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

37.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

38.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

40.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

41.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

42.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

43.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

44.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

46.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

47.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De